Rebate management blog - Page 41 - Enable

The European Club Association (ECA) is the sole, independent body directly representing football clubs at European level. It replaces the G14 Group and the European Club Forum, both dissolved at the beginning of 2008.

ECA was fully recognized by UEFA and FIFA in a formal memorandum of understanding, which was signed in January 2008. During the 2008-2009 season, ECA represented 137 member clubs, drawn from every one of the 53 national associations within UEFA, right across Europe, and is steered by a fifteen-member Executive Board.

Babcock International Group PLC is a leading support services company operating primarily in the airport, nuclear and defence industries. Their £1.2bn market capitalisation ranks them amongst the top 200 quoted companies in the UK.

Their customer base is largely composed of government departments and organisations whose activities are heavily regulated by government, including:

Supplier management is a critical discipline, especially for "goods for resale" businesses. Improving the visibility of an organisation’s purchase related data and systematising the associated business processes are essential factors in optimising revenue, reducing costs and managing risk in this area.

Establishing agreements for retrospective rebate payments from suppliers is a commonplace commercial method adopted by buyers. It is often a notoriously complex area to track and control, frequently creating administrative headaches for companies and absorbing valuable resource in the process.

Often rebate income is the difference between losing money and making money on the bottom line, so tracking the agreements to ensure on-target earnings is of critical importance. Having invested time and effort in establishing potentially lucrative deals with suppliers, companies face the arduous task of executing these in order to gain maximum benefit from those deals.

This can be a time consuming and expensive process. Rebate agreements by nature can be complex, ever-changing and therefore difficult to track. The risk to a company of not realising 100% of the agreed rebate escalates as complexity increases.

In December Enable exhibited at Information Management Solutions (IMS) at Olympia in London, for the third consecutive year.

Enable develops browser based business systems, often to replace legacy applications, Excel spreadsheets and Access databases that have become business critical.

During the exhibition Enable demonstrated its approach to many interested delegates, using live demonstrations to show how rapidly ’home grown’ systems could be replaced with Enable’s web-based approach. Demonstrations ranged from areas such as KPIs and Purchase Orders through to the management of Suppliers and Overriders.

NSL Services Group (NSL) is one of the biggest transport services businesses in the UK. The company is the largest provider of on-street parking management services in the country, with over 50 local authorities and two government agencies as customers. The business also provides a range of transport and related services to public and private clients, such as debt recovery, CCTV monitoring, bus and coach operations, notice processing and street design consultancy.

NSL required a flexible, web-based solution that could be deployed across all its business units and contracts. The core product demonstrated by Enable met the requirements of the new cash management and control system NSL were looking for, while at the same time provided sufficient flexibility to allow for extensive customisation to meet the specific needs of the business.